Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy : Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos

Frontispiece and cover

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Part 1: Childhood

1 An Inheritance of Intangibles, 1890s

2 Just a Boy from the Bush, 1908-1925

3 Becoming a Physicist, 1926-1929

Part 2: Becoming a scientist

4 New Opportunities in Australian science, 1929

5 Ionospheric Research, 1895-1935

6 To the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge 1931

7 Research for PhD Thesis at Cambridge 1931-1934

8 After the PhD: Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) and Marriage to Lenore Nicoll 1934-

1939

Part 3: WWII 1939-1945

9 J.L. Pawsey's Role in Australian Radar Research in World War II

10 Transition to Peace, 1945-1946

Part 4: Hot Corona

11 Beginnings of Solar Radio Astronomy, 1944-1945

12 Serendipity: Sunspots at Collaroy, 1945-1946

13 Sea-cliff Interferometry: Dover Heights, 1946

14 The Million Degree Solar Corona, 1945-1946

Part 5: Connections

15 Horizons 1944-1947

16 A New Field of Science

17 Pursuing "Radio Astronomy": Pawsey's travels to North America, the UK and Europe,

1947-1948

18 Scintillating Relationship with Cambridge, 1948-1951

Part 6: Quiet Leadership

19 Consolidation: Leadership at RPL, 1950-1951

20 Finite Resources: Pawsey & the HI line

21 No More Radio Stars! 1952

22 1953: "Radio" is Part of Astronomy

23 The Galactic Centre, 1951-1954

24 The Royal Society: Europe and North America, 1954

25 The Sun and the Ionosphere

26 Overseas again: Jodrell Bank and IAU, August 1955

Part 7: Towards a Bigger Science

27 Pawsey and the Giant Radio Telescope, 1951-1956

28 Brain Drain - Trip to US and Canada 1957-1959

29 Driving the GRT, 1957-1959

30 Schism at Radiophysics (1960)

31 John Bolton Returns, 1960-1961

32 Reflections on Science at/from the GRT

Part 8: The Development of Understanding

33 Pawsey and Philosophy of Science

34 The Development of a Theory for Radio Emission

35 Radio Source Survey: disputes, 1948-1957

36 Radio Source Survey: reconciliation, 1958-1962

37 The Evolution of Aperture Synthesis Imaging

Part 9: Death and Legacy

38 To the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 1961

39 Visions for NRAO, 1962

40 The Final Year - 1962

41 Legacy

42 Conclusion: J.L. Pawsey (1908-1962) and the Development of Radio Astronomy

Appendix A: Abbreviations

Appendix B: Dramatis Personae

Appendix C: Timeline

Appendix D: Electronic Supplemental Material (ESM)

Appendix E: NRAO ONLINE Supplementary Resources

References